Brain/Bibliography

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• Vallender, E.J.; N. Mekel-Bobrov & B.T. Lahn (2008), "Genetic basis of human brain evolution", Trends in Neurosciences 31: 637, DOI:10.1016/j.tins.2008.08.010 ^[e]

A brief and balanced overview over the genetic mechanisms currently deemed relevant for the evolution of the human brain, along with pointers to some related methodological issues.

• Crespi, B. & C. Badcock (2008), "Psychosis and autism as diametrical disorders of the social brain", Behav Brain Sci 31 (3): 241–261, DOI:10.1017/S0140525X08004214 ^[e]
• Lein, Ed S.; Michael J. Hawrylycz & Nancy Ao et al. (2007), "Genome-wide atlas of gene expression in the adult mouse brain", Nature 445 (7124): 168–176, DOI:10.1038/nature05453 ^[e]

Provides a brief description of The Allen Brain Atlas of the adult mouse brain (strain C57BL/6J) - "a genome-scale collection of cellular resolution gene expression profiles using in situ hybridization" of over 20,000 genes (i.e. most mouse genes then known to encode proteins). Also reports that "approximately 80% of total genes assayed display some cellular expression above background in the brain."

• Braitenberg, Valentino (2007), "Brain", Scholarpedia 2 (11): 2918
• Cosgrove, K.P.; C.M. Mazure & J.K. Staley (2007), "Evolving Knowledge of Sex Differences in Brain Structure, Function, and Chemistry", Biological Psychiatry 62 (8): 847–855, DOI:10.1016/j.biopsych.2007.03.001 ^[e]
• Molnár, Z.; C. Métin & A. Stoykova et al. (2006), "Comparative aspects of cerebral cortical development", Eur J Neurosci 23 (4): 921–934, DOI:10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.04611.x ^[e]
• Toga, A.W.; Thompson, P.M. (2005). "Genetics of brain structure and intelligence". Annual Review of Neuroscience 28: 1-23. DOI:10.1146/annurev.neuro.28.061604.135655. Research Blogging.

• Gomez, J.C. (2005), "Species comparative studies and cognitive development", Trends Cogn Sci 9 (3): 118–125, DOI:10.1016/j.tics.2005.01.004 ^[e]
• Sporns, O.; D.R. Chialvo & M. Kaiser et al. (2004), "Organization, development and function of complex brain networks", Trends in Cognitive Sciences 8 (9): 418–425, DOI:10.1016/j.tics.2004.07.008 ^[e]
• Pakkenberg, B.; D. Pelvig & L. Marner et al. (2003), "Aging and the human neocortex", Experimental gerontology 38 (1-2): 95–99, DOI:10.1016/S0531-5565(02)00151-1 ^[e]

Provides an overview over histological findings on the number of neurons and glia cells in the human neocortex and how they relate to age and gender.

• Clark, D.A.; P.P. Mitra & S.S. Wang (2001), "Scalable architecture in mammalian brains", Nature 411 (6834): 189–93, DOI:10.1038/35075564 ^[e]
• Gilbert, P.F.C. (2001), "An outline of brain function", Cognitive Brain Research 12 (1): 61–74, DOI:10.1016/S0926-6410(01)00035-0
• Chiel, H.J. & R.D. Beer (1997), "The brain has a body: adaptive behavior emerges from interactions of nervous system, body and environment", Trends in Neurosciences 20 (12): 553–557, DOI:10.1016/S0166-2236(97)01149-1 ^[e]
• Aiello, L.C. & P. Wheeler (1995), "The Expensive-Tissue Hypothesis: the Brain and the Digestive System in Human and Primate Evolution", Current Anthropology 36 (2): 199-221, DOI:10.1086/204350 ^[e]

Proposed that the energetic costs of the resting metabolism of different organs within the body have to be balanced. Specifically, such a trade-off is hypothesized to have governed the increasing brain size during primate and human evolution, in concert with a decrease in the amount of digestive tissue. For a critique, see Hladik et al. (1999).

• Frank, E. & P. Wenner (1993), "Environmental specification of neuronal connectivity", Neuron 10 (5): 779–785, DOI:10.1016/0896-6273(93)90194-V ^[e]
• Braitenberg, Valentino (1987), Vehicles, Experiments in synthetic psychology, Cambridge, Mass., [etc.]: The MIT Press, ISBN 0262521121, OCLC 18269344 67485950
• Snell, Otto (1892), "Die Abhängigkeit des Hirngewichtes von dem Körpergewicht und den geistigen Fähigkeiten", Archiv für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten 23: 436-446, DOI:10.1007/BF01843462
• Baillarger, J. (1845), "De l’étendue de la surface du cerveau", Gazette des Hôpitaux 18: 179